[dang]

This post set off HN's voting ring detector (quite badly), but we turned that off because we want to see original work on HN.

Please don't ring-vote posts—i.e. solicit upvotes. Besides setting off the ring detector, which penalizes the post, it will eventually get your account penalized as well.

[JoelBesada]

Hey thanks! I was really not trying to abuse the voting system, but I can see that it becomes a bit suspicious when a bunch of people from the office want to upvote my project.

[EGreg]

How do you find out if your account is penalized? I actually shared something I posted on HN before, on my fb wall, and some people who liked it upvoted it. Is that allowed?

[dang]

> How do you find out if your account is penalized?

Email [e-mail].

> I actually shared something I posted on HN before, on my fb wall, and some people who liked it upvoted it. Is that allowed?

It's not that it isn't allowed, but if people upvote your post in ring-votey ways, then the ring detector could be set off [1]. Keep in mind that it can't tell anything about intent. We know that in most cases people mean well.

1. I know I'm speaking vaguely but I hope everyone understands why that's necessary.